The Republican journal., 1887-07-21
Generalities.

Crops throughout the Dominion are in very
| promising condition.
One California canncry has canned 13:, tons
| of cherries this season.
The China tea trade is suffering from compe-
tition in India and Ccyon
John Stctson, the theatrical manager has
purchased 200 steam yacht.
| Locusts, drought and chinch bugs are tles-
| troying the crops in Minnesota.
John l.. sullivan will make tour of Nova
Scotia and will then go to England.
| The spring wheat crop is about three fourtlls
OF an average. Corn promises finely.
| Unhappy Newfoundland again reports Il
gloomy outlook for fisheries and crops.
The agricultural departments experiment in
raising tea in North Carolina has failed.
An enormous yield of wheat, barley. oats and
hay is expected in Manitoba this season.
| Several remarkable Aztec mummics have
been cNhumcd in the Sierra Madrc range.
J. II. Whpple of Young's Hotel, Boston.
carries an insurance of S500,000 on his life.
| Charles Merriam, the Webster dictionary
publisher, died at Springfield, Mass. Saturday.
Eighteen saloon keepers in IIavcrhill Mass,
have been arrested for selling liquor illegally.
The japanese Government has decided to
Dullu three new war vessels at Il cost of s. 0OO-
| 900 each.
Paper doors are coming into use and it is
claimed chat they will neither shrink, swell.
| crack or warp.
The revenue marine barquc $. p. Chase is not
lost, as has been reported but is all right at the
port of Lisbon.
The Salt Lake Tribune ,cnounces the Nor
mon article pretending to abolish poIygamy as
Il fraud and Il sham.
The shortage in the Fidelity National Bank
| of Cincinnati will reach nearly 5000, 900, accord
ing to official report.
American schoonerS are taking mackerel within
the thrcc-milc limit.
Chinese mining camps in Idaho have lately
been raidc'l by Indians or whites and many of
the CccstiaIs murdered.
Petroleum has been discovered near Nacoy-
doche>, Tex. at Il depth of ci-htv-tiyc feet
Six wells have been opened.
At a Chicago hotel table Il young lady knock
c,i down with a drinking glass a male nciyhbor
who Used indecent language.
1t is estimated that >iN->evenths of the lives
lost ut sea are in vessels that have fulinlercl
and never after been heard of.
The Catholic Herald, New York paper
which espouscd the cause of DIR. McGlvnn, has
been obliged to suspend publication.
The Kansas wheat crop will be only 25 per
cent. of that harvested three years awo. The
corn crop will exceed 25o, o,000, 900 bushels.
Gen. Lamour. charged with attempting to
murder President Salomon of llayti, has been
sentenced to imprisonment for life at harl lab
or.
The New York and Mobile Steamship Conn
pany has been organized, To run passenger and
freight steamers to Mobile and other southern
ports.
y royal proclamation has been published eX-
tending pardon to all ,c>ertcr> from the British
land forces in commcmoration of the Quccn'>
jubilee.
James +. Nowlin, who murdered George 4.
Goldman at Somcrvillc. Mass. last january has
been sentenced to be hung ON Friday. january
20, 1S>S.
Yam Phon Lee, the young Chincsc gentleman
who graduated at ale Il few days ago was mar
ried on July to an American, Miss Elizabeth
Maud jerome.
Francis Rondo, the Wisconsin pioneer. who
died last week at Fond lu Lac. aged more than
100 wears, is >a! to have left l5l tcrcnlcnt> in
three generations.
Congressman Butterwortl, Of Ohio and E.ra>-
tu> W imam of New York report the sentiment
in Canada is in favor of Il commercial union
with the United States.
Ignatiu> Donnclly's Shakespeare clph,r book
has been completed and As soon is ;hc publish
ers can perform the necessary work it will bc
before the reading public
Two unpublished letters from Luther t.
Brcnz, and five from Melancthon to the >tlubiun |
Rcforner I.achman, have been found IL an old |
desk in school at lleilbronn.
NJ. tie Les>eps has issued Il circular announc-
ing second issue of bonds of the Panamn AT |
al to the amount of 10000 900, though l.0oU,- |
900 francs are still in hand.
Guy c. IIotchkisS. after secluded life of 20
Years in California, has returned TO his family |
in Brooklyn, and become the poS>c>>or of 'Sl3,- |
000,o10, which his father left.
i he Times says that 300 local assemblies of
knights of Labor in New York have protested |
against the new constitution of thc order and
will fight against its enforcement.
Frederick Douglass, who is now in Europe,
Is to be gwen rou>ln@ reception by the color |
ed people of Washington on his return, which |
is expected to take place in September.
The four Grand Army posts at Utica, y. V,
have resolved not to parade in a body, :t> lIey
on the 18th, if President Cleveland is present.
An Illinois court gives to an unmarried moth |
CT her child, whom she intr,istcd three Years |
ago to a woman who abandoned it. The lady |
who adopted it fought hard for its possession.
A phrcnoloyi>t SAYS that .fune,s under The
eye denotes language When the fune,> is |
caused by another mans fist it denotes very |
bad language, generally. Norri>town Herald |
The New York city directory contains 2l,5
pages of names, numbering in all 32i ,>l3. and
indicating population of l60000O There |
are 23o0 Smiths, 1900 Browns and 900 Jonc>e>
enrolled
Oscar J. Harvey, an official of the treasury
department. has been dismissed by Secretary
Fairchlld, and held in S12,ODO for ,efraulng !
the government by an ingenious system of
forged claims.
MIR. p. Il. Barnum celebrated his 18th birth |
day the ith of July. by giving elambake to
thirty of his children, grandchildren and great
grandchildren. The veteran Snowman says he
never felt in bctt er health.
Senator Cuom in a Fourth of July oration
at Saybrook, ILL.,. said this country must not be
the dumping ground for paupcr> and criminals
of other lands. The bars should be put up aud |
fastened against such elements.
England has obai ned for her imports into
Cuba and Porto Rico the same treatment aS is |
accorded American imports by the Spanish
American Convention. The arrangement only
operates until the end of the year.
Notwithstanding the extraordinary precati-
tionS taken by the Live Stock Sanitary Com
mission of Nebraska, 900 head of Texas cattle |
We're Smugyed into that State in April last. and !
Texas fever has broken out anon" herds.
1t is estimated that the chain of labor strikes
which began a year ago has cost fifteen million
dollars, nearly every dollar of which has come
out of the pockets of the wagc-carncrs- or>e
than wasted. Two great strikes. which have
ended recently in total failure-for the strikers
were the bricklaycrs of Chicago, costing |
$4,000, 900. and the shocmakers' lockout in
Massachusetts, cOstn" 81 SOC, 900
Sons of Temperance.
The annual session of the National div vision
of Sons of Temperance opened Mt Boston.
July 10Th. The annual report of the most
worth by patriarchs shows an increase in MEM
bership of 3,s51, making total membership
of A.319. a notable gain has been made i'm |